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Why would you go through the process of switching the language? Well, if you want to know the truth of it: If that language just so happens to be PHP, then th
by variety 16y ago
Why would you go through the process of switching the language?
Well, if you want to know the truth of it:
If that language just so happens to be PHP, then they might have a whole bunch of reasons. A lot of people just don't like PHP; don't consider it to be a very fun or interesting language to program in, and in particular, don't consider it long-term viable for large, multi-faceted projects.
- caillou 16y agoI've heard a lot of that. Yet, mostly from people who've never or hardly ever used the language. By reputation, PHP is a bit like JavaScript. JavaScript was this language nobody liked. It wasn't even considered a real language by most programmers. Some of it's design errors made it a language with low barrier to entry. Hence a lot of mediocre programmers made it unpopular with code that does not deserved to be called code. This changed with people like Crockford and his 'JavaScript the good parts'... It's pretty much the same with PHP. It gets the job done very easily... And once you know what you do, you can rely on it for large projects too. Especially with the changes that were introduced in the latest release: Namespaces, Closures, ...